Felting fur bodies



UNITED STATES PATENI--Q,EEIE- HOWARD W. FLAGG, OF YONKERS, NEWV YORK.

FELTING FUR BODIES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 444,209, dated January 6, 1891.

Application filed. May 12, 1890. Serial No. 351,529. (No specimens.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HOWARD W. FLAGG, of Yonkers, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new Improvement in Felting Fur Bodies; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

Myinvention relates to animproved method of felting fur bodies and particularly furhat bodies, the objects beingto prevent them from being broken or injured during the felting process and to do the work more economically than it heretofore has been done.

WVith these objects in view my invention consists in a method of felting fur-hats or other fur-bodies, consisting in working them in a fulling-mill together wit-l1 a padding of other fibrous stock, preferably,but not necessarily, in the form of wool-hat bodies, which in this case will be felted at the same time.

I prefer to carrv out my invention by placing, say, equal numbers of fur and wool hat bodies together in a fulling-mill of any approved construction and felting the two kinds of bodies simultaneously, whereby the tender fur-hat bodies are prevented from being torn or injured under the action of the hammers of the falling-mill by the tougher wool-hat bodies which form a padding for them. But for the padding action of the wool-hat bodies the fur-hat bodies would be torn and injured, and particularly when first placed in the mill, when they are very tender. I have spoken of putting an equal number of fur and wool hat-bodies in the mill; but the percentage of each may be varied, as found desirable. The

fur and wool hat bodies aresimplythrown into the mill together withoutany relative arrangement and constantly shift about under the action of the hammers.

' It is not essential that the protecting element in the mill be in the form of'wool-hat bodies, for, if desired, other fibrous bodies may be used in their stead. By preference, however, I employ wool-hat bodies, as an obvious economy is secured by simultaneously felting the two kinds of hat-bodies in the same mill; nor is my invention limited to fur-hat bodies, as other fur bodies may be felted in the same way.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A method of felting fur bodies, consisting in working them in a falling-mill, together with other fibrous bodies employed, in sufficient quantities to form a padding for them and prevent them from being injured or torn by the hammers of the fulling-mill, substantially as described.

2. A method of felting fur-hat bodies, consisting in Working them in a fulling-mill simultaneously with Wool-hat bodies employed in sufficient quantities to form a padding for the fur-hat bodies and prevent them from being injured or torn by the hammers of the fulling-mill, substantially as described.

HOYVARD WV. FLAGG.

Witnesses:

S. H. TI-IAYER, KELLOGG FRANCIS. 

